From Condor Machay Falls to Hacienda Santa Rita
Pincha aquí para la versión en castellano On Sunday, April 27, we officially began the acclimatization hikes to ascend Cotopaxi. At 9 am, Pablo, the guide from Andeanface , and Patricio (a driver) arrived to pick us up in a passenger van. As usual, we were not ready on time, and we ended up leaving around 9:30, heading towards a point in the ‘La Caldera’ sector from where we would start walking till our destination of the day: Hacienda Santa Rita (about a 5-hour walk). Tete, Ximena, Daniel, and the kids: Tomás and Joaquín, would join us in the afternoon in Santa Rita. The van arrived at the parking lot of the Condor Machay Ecological Reserve around 11 am. Ciro was already there waiting for us with the food we should bring in our backpacks for that day's hike. The plan was to transfer our bulky items from the passenger van to the Andeanface’s Toyota Ciro was driving, and only carry light backpacks with sandwiches and snacks for the day. Patricio would return to Quito in the empty v...